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I feel bad for the Julia community. They must be sad that they didn't get picked over Swift.

So far I can easily use Julia on Windows, Swift on the other hand....

I don't think it's over yet really. Tensorflow might be moving their code base to Swift, but there's other frameworks and TF isn't the be-all-and-end-all of ML frameworks. Having used it, I'd really hope it isn't, because it's incredibly painful to use.

I'm personally excited for the likes of Julia's Flux framework to get a bit more production ready, I think that's got serious legs.

I particularly enjoy that Flux.jl is an AD framework and a couple lines of Julia code defining convenience functions for ML, and it is all written in Julia so it invites exploration.

Tim Besard gave a talk at a Tensorflow meetup recently that walked through the Julia stack (GPU&ML) that I would highly recommend: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1y93Kg8ZizvabKAGs-zmA...

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